Would you date a man who didn't eat any vegetables?

[Callcat]

Just that really!

No, I love food! Cooking and eating out at all different types of restaurants, so I would have nothing in common with someone who was a fussy eater

@godmum56

If you don’t eat veg then suddenly eating a lot would be a shock to the system. But low fibre diets actually cause IBS.

My DS doesn't eat veg and he is very healthy. Runs marathons for fun!

Looks like my DS is going to stay a bachelor then. He won’t eat any veg, he gags on all of it apart from cucumber. My other two DS’s love them.

A lot of people have already said "not including people who have to avoid veg for medical reasons". It was said one page one or two of the thread I think. That's quite different. You could marry someone who loved veg and they could then develop a condition which means they need to avoid veg. It would be bonkers to suddenly divorce from! But, definitely, if a guy said they just never eat any vegetables because they don't like them, or if they did things like picked them out of their fajitas or couldn't eat properly at other people's houses, I would find that a massive turn off.

No.

As a committed omnivorous foodie, fussy eaters of any description are just not my sort of people. If you insist on denying yourself one of life’s greatest sensual pleasures, I’m afraid we can’t be friends.

I struggle eating fruit - it makes me feel quite ill looking at it sometimes! I think I probably have food phobias.

I nibble on chicken and green beans at dinner a few times a week (generally so DH has someone to eat with) but now and again I get really hungry. I just had a takeaway and gobbled a whole Pizza Express Romana pizza. Effectively I graze and eat a meal when I need.

My DH finds me hard work, I don’t like roast dinners - I can’t even look at them (or tea) without retching. I don’t think he’d dump me over it though!

Where I find it difficult is going out for a meal with work colleagues (with my family I can have just a starter). I never tell people this though and just go along with the flow!

Anyway, I’d give it a go. He may be a really nice person. Food problems are not childish - they can’t be helped. He may not have been brought up with them so his taste buds may need adjusting, or he may have a negative association with them. I’m not sure where mine stems from but my Dad (who is healthy) has similar issues to me. He’s been married 50 years!

It really depends. Being rigid about food because of a condition such as autism is very different to being rigid due to fussiness. As an autistic person it is difficult to read so many people saying that they would write someone off due to this without knowing anything else about them because they're 'childish' or 'unadventurous'.

@RampantIvy I don’t eat Italian food at all, no. I cook my own curry which I do put vegetables in (for the kids) but when I serve mine up, I make sure there’s no veg on my plate. I eat Mexican food but again, I cook it with vegetables for the children but take them out of mine

He might be a fruitarian!

You would all love our house. 1 vegan, 2 vegetarians, 1 meat eater. 1 has an allergy.

We’re bloody brilliant and anyone who wouldn’t date one of us is missing out ! 😜😂

It would really depend on how it impacted me. Someone who pulls a face at the sight of vegetables or is picky about the restaurants they will go to wouldn't have many dates with me. Someone who just gets on with it and doesn't make a fuss then it's their body, their choice.

@Fruitbatdancer

No. If he won’t eat vegetables he sure as heck won’t eat 🐱

😂

@Callcat

Just that really!

Anyway, OP, why do you ask?

@Grantanow

He might be a fruitarian!

He might even be a breatharian. In which case you have other problems...

@cushioncovers

Nope it's childish and shows a lack of willingness to change or comprise.

Oh what utter bollocks!!

“My ex dh had really odd eating habits. Pretty much the only thing he’d eat out was plain cheese and tomato pizza or chips. And at home he’d eat stuff like a whole plateful of potato waffles microwaved (!) with cheese and chilli powder on top. And then he’d eat it lying on his front on the floor whilst reading the Argos catalogue. Just got pissed off with it all really.”

I laughed so hard at this that I may need to go and lie down.

@MrHavelIsHot

You would all love our house. 1 vegan, 2 vegetarians, 1 meat eater. 1 has an allergy.

We’re bloody brilliant and anyone who wouldn’t date one of us is missing out ! 😜😂

I wouldn’t have any issues with this, but lack of vegetables would be a PITA.

I can imagine catering family-style for your set-up quite easily in a way I cannot envisage doing without all vegetables.

I laughed so hard at this that I may need to go and lie down.

It was the Argos catalogue that got me 😂

I did, and won him around to the joys of veg.

His family are terrible cooks and everything was boiled to death, so I can’t blame him rejecting that stuff.

No - he'd starve if I was cooking.

No, because I’d think he was not fully formed. He’s not moved on from being a picky eater as a child.

What a mad thing to discount a date on when so many red flags are often ignored for the sake of being in a relationship.
DS is 26 and only eats carrots and garden peas. Any other veg make him retch. It doesn’t make him a monster. He does eat loads of fruit and cereals.
He rarely drinks alcohol (maybe twice a year) and doesn’t smoke or do drugs. He loves sport and travelling and has a great career. He also has no debt apart from his mortgage (including student loans) and bought his home when he was 23 but many of you would say no because he doesn’t eat an array of vegetables. I really can’t get my head round this, not that it matters to him as he’s been with his partner for nine years.

No, definitely not.

Lying on the floor reading the Argos catalogue whilst munching on microwaved waffles. Imagine letting such a prince fall from your clutches.